It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.

There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.

The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.

In performance, we have a greater purpose. The greater purpose is that we're communing together, and we want this moment to be really special for all of us. Because otherwise, why bother to have come at all? It's not about proving anything. It's about sharing something.

Good things happen when you meet strangers.

I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.

You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.